Objective To evaluate the clinical efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine turbid phlegm obstructing lung decoction on patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease(AECOPD)and its influence on laboratory indexes.Methods A total of 191 patients with AECOPD who were hospitalized in the First People's Hospital of Changde from January 2021 to December 2022 were selected.Patients were divided into observation group(96 cases)and control group(95 cases)according to their treatment intention.The control group received conventional treatment of western medicine,and the observation group received oral administration of traditional Chinese medicine turbid phlegm obstructing lung decoction for one week.TCM symptom scores,COPD assessment test(CAT),lung function,laboratory indicators and efficacy were compared between two groups.Results The total effective rate of observation group was significantly higher than that of control group(χ2=4.573,P=0.030).After treatment,TCM symptom score,CAT score,hypersensitive C-reaction protein(hsCRP)and interleukin-6(IL-6)of patients in both groups were significantly lower than before treatment,percentage of forced vital capacity to predicted value(FVC%)and percentage of forced expiratory volume in one second to predicted value(FEV1%)were significantly higher than before treatment(P<0.05),arterial partial pressure of carbon dioxide(PaCO2)of observation group was lower than before treatment,and arterial partial pressure of oxygen(PaO2)was higher than before treatment(P<0.05).The TCM symptom score,CAT score,hsCRP and IL-6 of observation group were significantly lower than those of control group,while FVC%,FEV1%and PaO2 were significantly higher than those of control group(P<0.05).Conclusion On the basis of western medicine treatment,traditional Chinese medicine turbid phlegm obstructing lung decoction can more effectively improve clinical symptoms of AECOPD patients,relieve the inflammation in the body,contribute to the recovery of lung function and improve the quality of life of patients.

Objective:To investigate the total radioactivity in drinking well water around the Bayanwula uranium mine.Methods:Totally 174 samples of drinking well water and 5 samples of filtered well water from residential houses were collected during dry and wet seasons in 2020 around the Bayanwula uranium mine. Total α and total β radioactivity in dry season and wet season were analyzed for detrmining whether there were differences between them and the relation between total radioactivity with different locations away from the uranium center. The radioactivity in filtered drinking well water used in residential houses was also investigated. Radioactivity were measured and analyzed using low background alpha and beta radioactivity meters, and the data were analysed using SPSS analytical statistical method.Results:In the drinking well water around Bayanwula uranium mine, the activity concentrations of total α and β measured in dry season were 0.024-2.468 Bq/L with a mean of (0.605±0.507) Bq/L and 0.125-1.395 Bq/L with a mean of (0.420±0.235) Bq/L, respectively. The values measured in wet season were 0.049-2.988 Bq/L with a mean of (0.825±0.605) Bq/L for total α and 0.059-1.623 Bq/L with a mean of (0.506±0.265) Bq/L for total β, respectively. The average value of total radioactivity in water samples was lower within 10, 30 and 20 km of the uranium mine in the descending order.Conclusions:The radioactivity in well water around the Bayanwula uranium mine is high, with the total α and β in samples greater in wet season than in the dry season and without elevated levels as compared to the pre-mining background.

The Genome Sequence Archive (GSA) is a data repository for archiving raw sequence data, which provides data storage and sharing services for worldwide scientific communities. Considering explosive data growth with diverse data types, here we present the GSA family by expanding into a set of resources for raw data archive with different purposes, namely, GSA (https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gsa/), GSA for Human (GSA-Human, https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gsa-human/), and Open Archive for Miscellaneous Data (OMIX, https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/omix/). Compared with the 2017 version, GSA has been significantly updated in data model, online functionalities, and web interfaces. GSA-Human, as a new partner of GSA, is a data repository specialized in human genetics-related data with controlled access and security. OMIX, as a critical complement to the two resources mentioned above, is an open archive for miscellaneous data. Together, all these resources form a family of resources dedicated to archiving explosive data with diverse types, accepting data submissions from all over the world, and providing free open access to all publicly available data in support of worldwide research activities.

The Genome Warehouse (GWH) is a public repository housing genome assembly data for a wide range of species and delivering a series of web services for genome data submission, storage, release, and sharing. As one of the core resources in the National Genomics Data Center (NGDC), part of the China National Center for Bioinformation (CNCB;https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn), GWH accepts both full and partial (chloroplast, mitochondrion, and plasmid) genome sequences with different assembly levels, as well as an update of existing genome assemblies. For each assembly, GWH collects detailed genome-related metadata of biological project, biological sample, and genome assembly, in addition to genome sequence and annotation. To archive high-quality genome sequences and annotations, GWH is equipped with a uniform and standardized procedure for quality control. Besides basic browse and search functionalities, all released genome sequences and annotations can be visualized with JBrowse. By May 21, 2021, GWH has received 19,124 direct submissions covering a diversity of 1108 species and has released 8772 of them. Collectively, GWH serves as an important resource for genome-scale data management and provides free and publicly accessible data to support research activities throughout the world. GWH is publicly accessible at https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/gwh.

TSCI have dyskinesia and sensory disturbance that can cause various life-threaten complications. The patients with traumatic spinal cord injury (TSCI), seriously affecting the quality of life of patients. Based on the epidemiology of TSCI and domestic and foreign literatures as well as expert investigations, this expert consensus reviews the definition, injury classification, rehabilitation assessment, rehabilitation strategies and rehabilitation measures of TSCI so as to provide early standardized rehabilitation treatment methods for TSCI.

Objective:To investigate the feasibility and reproducibility of using three-dimensional arterial spin labeling (3D-ASL) technique to evaluate the thyroid blood flow (TBF) in healthy adults and compare the difference in TBF between subjects with different gender and age.Methods:In this prospective study, 100 healthy adult subjects were enrolled from November 2018 to June 2019 in Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences Cancer Hospital, Shenzhen Hospital. All subjects received thyroid 3D-ASL MRI scanning, but several subjects were excluded from analysis for reasons including intolerance to examination ( n=1), overt artifacts ( n=11), abnormality detected in thyroid gland during conventional MRI ( n=15), resulting in 73 subjects included. Two attending radiologists independently evaluated the quality of ASL images and measured the TBF in upper, middle and lower poles of each lobe in thyroid gland bilaterally. Cohen’s Kappa was used to test the agreement in image quality between 2 radiologists, while intraclass correlation (ICC) analysis was implemented to evaluate the consistency in TBF measurements. Univariate variance analysis was used to compare the TBF in upper, middle and lower pole of thyroid gland unilaterally, and student t-test was performed to test the difference in TBF between two lobes, or in the same lobe but between different gender or age groups. Results:For image quality, 2 radiologists have good agreement (Kappa=0.753, P<0.001). In terms of TBF, consistency was moderate in the lower pole of left lobe between 2 radiologists (ICC=0.648, P<0.001), but good in the remaining parts of thyroid gland (all ICC>0.75, P<0.001). Unilaterally, TBF in the middle pole was significantly higher than those in the upper or lower pole ( P<0.001), but no significant difference was found between the upper and lower pole ( P>0.05). Regardless of upper, middle or lower pole, TBF in the right lobe was higher than the counterpart in the left lobe ( t=6.182, 6.294, 4.896, P<0.001). Between male subjects ( n=31) and female subjects ( n=42), no significant difference was found in the corresponding upper, middle or lower pole of thyroid lobe unilaterally ( P>0.05). As for age group, TBF in the middle pole of thyroid gland was higher in the middle age group (45-59 years old, n=12) than that in the young adult group (18-44 years old, n=61) ( t=3.868, P=0.003 for the left lobe, and t=2.647, P=0.022 for the right lobe), but no significant difference was found in the upper or lower pole of the unilateral thyroid lobe ( P>0.05). Conclusion:ASL can accurately measure blood flow perfusion in the thyroid gland with good reproducibility.

On January 22, 2020, China National Center for Bioinformation (CNCB) released the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Resource (2019nCoVR), an open-access information resource for the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). 2019nCoVR features a comprehensive integra-tion of sequence and clinical information for all publicly available SARS-CoV-2 isolates, which are manually curated with value-added annotations and quality evaluated by an automated in-house pipeline. Of particular note, 2019nCoVR offers systematic analyses to generate a dynamic landscape of SARS-CoV-2 genomic variations at a global scale. It provides all identified variants and their detailed statistics for each virus isolate, and congregates the quality score, functional annotation,and population frequency for each variant. Spatiotemporal change for each variant can be visualized and historical viral haplotype network maps for the course of the outbreak are also generated based on all complete and high-quality genomes available. Moreover, 2019nCoVR provides a full collection of SARS-CoV-2 relevant literature on the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), including published papers from PubMed as well as preprints from services such as bioRxiv and medRxiv through Europe PMC. Furthermore, by linking with relevant databases in CNCB, 2019nCoVR offers data submission services for raw sequence reads and assembled genomes, and data sharing with NCBI. Collectively, SARS-CoV-2 is updated daily to collect the latest information on genome sequences, variants, hap-lotypes, and literature for a timely reflection, making 2019nCoVR a valuable resource for the global research community. 2019nCoVR is accessible at https://bigd.big.ac.cn/ncov/.

Objective: To screen the differentially expressed long non-coding RNAs(lncRNAs) by analyzing the related gene sequencing data of female non-smoking lung cancer patients in the database of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). Methods: The gene expression data and the corresponding clinical information of female non-smoking lung cancer patients were downloaded from the TCGA database. Then, the data were processed, integrated and analyzed with the R software package, and the differentially expressed genes were screened out. The prognosis was analyzed by the Survival package. Results: A total of 354 differentially expressed lncRNAs associated with female non-smoking lung cancer were obtained, of which 45 were down-regulated and 309 were up-regulated in tumor tissues. The prognosis analysis showed that the expression level of LINC01863 was positively correlated with the prognosis of female non-smoking lung cancer patients (P＜0.05), and that the expression levels of LINC02487, LINC01419 and DSCAM-AS1 were negatively correlated with the prognosis of female non-smoking lung cancer patients (P＜0.05). Conclusion The re-analysis on the high-throughput sequencing data in TCGA database obtains a large number of lncRNAs related to the development of female non-smoking lung cancer, which provides the potential new targets for the diagnosis and prognosis assessment of female non-smoking lung cancer.

Objective To provide anatomical basis for the design of the V-Y advancement flap and investigate the morphological characters of the dorsal carpal perforators.Methods From August,2017 to October,2018,30 sides aduh specimens of hand were perfused with red latex.The following contents were observed under surgical magnifier:①The origin,courses,branches,and distribution of the dorsal carpal perforators.②The characters of dorsal carpal perforators in agreement with the antebrachial and dorsal metacarpal vascular net.Results The dorsal carpal vascular network was composed of deep vascular network (bone and joint network) and superficial vascular network (fasciocutaneous network).The deep vascular network was located at the deep aspect of the extensor tendons and was commonly formed by dorsal carpal branch of radial artery,dorsal carpal branch of anterior interosseous artery,ascending branch of the dorsal carpal perforator from the deep palmar arch,and dorsal carpal branch of ulnar artery.The superficial vascular network was located on the surface of the extensor tendons and was mainly formed by dorsal carpal branch of radial artery,dorsal carpal branch of ulnar artery,dorsal carpal branch of anterior interosseous artery,radial and ulnar myocutaneous branches of posterior interosseous artery,and the perforators from the deep vascular network.The 3rd and 4th perforators puncturing out from the ulnar and radial margins of the extensor tendon had a constant occurrence rate (100％) with an outer diameter of (0.7±0.3) mm and (0.6±0.2) mm,respectively,and a length of (1.1±0.4) cm and (0.9±0.4) cm,respectively.They were divided into the ascending branch,descending branch,and collateral branch.And finally anastomosis with antebrachial and dorsal metacarpal perforators.Conclusion The V-Y advancement flap based on the dorsal carpal perforators can be a good choice for restoring the dorsal metacarpal defects.